To the Editor:
I have read with interest the four-part series on the University's "identity crisis" ("Mission Drift?"). Yet, as a graduate student in his fifth year, I ask: Where exactly do we, the graduate students, fit into this Jeremiad about the loss of the "university-college"? Obviously we are not undergraduates, and for that I apologize. I hope I'm not ruining any undergrad's great liberal arts college experience. But we are students, researchers and teachers who contribute to make this University better — in intellectual, academic and pedagogical terms. I strongly urge The Herald to include us in this important conversation. Acknowledging the fact that we comprise a full fourth of the student body could be a start.
Felipe Valencia GS
